Buckeye State Blog - Strickland Makes an "Oooopsie" With Hillz - Comments

Ted may be right

Administrator — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:17:47 -0800

But his job isn't to point out how stupid the system is...it's to get Hillary votes. In that respect,I gotta wonder what Ted was thinking.

Nails, zyggie!

J-Dog — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:16:05 -0800

I couldn't have said it any better. I agree wholeheartedly!

Ted's right

zygela — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 04:49:56 -0800

Iowa's process -- even apart from the fact that the state's population is hardly a cross-section of the nation's demographic -- disenfranchises huge portions of even its own already disproportionately white voter base. Today's NYT explains: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/02/us/politics/02vote.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin Now all we need to do is get rid of NH. Maybe a regional primary system?? Then and only then will this process begin to represent the American populace. After all that's taken care of, one hopes that the entire system can be moved up in time, so that, as is the case in sane countries, the process of electing a national leader can be pared down to -- maybe -- six months.

Strickland Makes an "Oooopsie" With Hillz

Administrator — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:04:01 -0800

Photo from a rally this past weekend in Iowa, courtesy rawbanana

Looks like Ted didn't read the primary caucus handbooks. Whatever you do, DON'T CRITICIZE THE FIRST IN THE NATION STATUS OF EITHER NH OR IOWA. That is, don't criticize if you really want to get votes for your candidate. From CNN (H/t the naugleless RightAngle).

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland was quoted in Sunday’s edition of The Columbus Dispatch as saying that it “makes no sense” to grant Iowa the right to hold the first contest of the 2008 race for the White House.
"I'd like to see both parties say, 'We're going to bring this to an end,'" Strickland told the newspaper.
Competing campaigns seized on the article and emailed it around to reporters to highlight Strickland’s comments late Sunday night. The Clinton campaign moved quickly, and issued a statement shortly after midnight distancing the New York senator from the governor’s remarks.
“Senator Clinton has worked her heart out campaigning in Iowa because she knows it plays a unique and special role in the nominating process and that process must be protected,” read the statement. “As she has said many times she is glad Iowans are entrusted with this responsibility because they take it so seriously. On this issue Hillary and Gov. Strickland strongly disagree.”

Ouch, that one stings.